John hill



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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HILL, on COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.

FIRE-ExTlNeulsl-IER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-raamt No. 224,431, dated February Application filed November 7. 1879.

v To all whom-it may concern: 7

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Be it known that I, JOHN HILL, of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee. andState of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Extinguishing Fires; and I- do hereby declarethat the following is al full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which A Figure-1 is a vertical section of` a building, taken through the tower, and showing the arrangement of the pipes, valves, and means for Fig. 2A is a horizontal is a view of the devices in the tower, looking at them from the opposite side, shown in Fig.

My invention relates to thatclass of fire-extinguishers :employed in large factoriesand in similar institutions in which a stand-pipe is connected by branch'pipes and valves with `a set of sprinkling-pipes in each story, whereby the water may be 'showered down'l in any room or compartment in whicha fire may takeV place.

the4 valves of each branch pipe where theyr join the stand-pipe and lead to the several stories with a common station by means of shafts and'toothed gears, and providing a handle or hand-wheel on each floor with the valve, whereby the turning on ofthe .water from the stand-pipe to the branch pipe ofany one story may be effected either upon that floor or from a common station below, as-hereinafter fully described.' I l The invention also consists in providing each shaft with Spanner-connections on the several oors, by which the valve of anyone floor may be operated from any otherioor within the building.

As an example of my invention, A AA repa tower, having also several stories commu-d` nicatin g through doors with the corresponding stories of the building. Within this tower is erected a stand-pipe, lC, which is connected with the water-mains, a reservoir on top of thel building, or other suitable supply.

My invention consists, mainly, in connecting fixed to the top of independent shafts G G Grz 4 'leading to the ground door, and stepped within a suitable metal frame, H. These shafts have at their lower station, also, bevel-wheels d d d2, meshing with bevel-wheels e e e2 ixedV upon the ends of Ashort shafts ff f2, which are journaled in bearings in the frame H, and are provided with hand-wheels I I I? for turning the same.v This, it-will be seen, furnishes means for turning on the water into any story to the exclusion of the others, andffrom the groundiioor and outside of the building, where the attendant'will not be subjected to the smoke and flame. Y

If desired, the water may also be turned on at any iioor without descending by means of the hand-wheels a c a2.

The upright shafts Gr G G2 also have couplin gs or rigid collars g g g2, provided with hoQles, into which aspanner may be fitted to turn the valve, whichlatter arrangement permits the valves of one story to be turned from the next or at any lower story.

In arranging the position of the hand-wheels I below I prefer lo place them as to height in the order representing the respective altitudes of the stories which `they controli. c., the hand-wheel connecting with the upper story I place above the others, and so on. Where two shafts control separate sets of sprinklingpipes `on the same iioor I ymark the handwheels below with east or wcstffnorth or south, Src., to designate' the points ofthebuildingto which they lead.

When the circumstances ofthe case require care to Vprevent theV` freezing of the water in h the pipes, the stand-pipe may be provided with a valve and waste-pipe to draw offv the water loo in the same and close it against further admission of Water.

For extinguishing res other uid or gases may be used instead of water.

Having thus described my invent-ion, what I claim as new is- 1. In a. ire-extinguisher7 the combination of a main and distributing pipes with a rotary shaft and a valve adapted to be operated from a. common station7 or in close proximity to the valve, by means substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the Water-pipes and a series of rotary shafts connecting with independent valves in the different stories, of a set of spanner-connections arranged upon 15 each shaft in eaeli story to permit the valves of one oor to be operated from the other oors, as described.

JOHN HILL.

Witnesses:

G. GREELY J onDAN, L. F. WOODRUFF. 

